An audio clip of Donald Trump’s conversation about women with Billy Bush eleven years ago was released on Friday, which consisted of the Presidential Candidate bragging about getting women whenever he pleases because “when you’re a star, they let you do it.” The most memorable and controversial part was Trump’s frequent use of the word “p*ssy.” But maybe the media overlooked the word the truly defined the man many people want to call America’s next president, which was “grab,” and perfectly explained in an Instagram post by the One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D. star, Sophia Bush.
Bush has always been vocal when discussing social justice matters, and never shies away from sharing her opinions on this year’s election. Simply and effectively, the self-proclaimed activist states, “the most offensive word in this sentence isn’t [p***y], it’s grab. Men who force their advances on women, who ‘don’t even wait’ — meaning who don’t even bother to ask a woman if she is interested, much less if she wants to be touched — as Trump says is his practice, are guilty of sexual assault.”
“Grab” is a forceful, aggressive word. Women don’t want to be “grabbed” by anything, and it only further proves the sexual predator-like tendencies this man always will have. Sophia Bush wasn’t the only young actress to address Donald Trump’s recent words on Instagram. On Sunday, Amber Tamblyn shared her personal experience of an abusive ex-boyfriend that grabbed her in the way Trump was suggesting. “The minute he saw me, he picked me up with one hand by my hair and with his other hand, he grabbed me under my skirt by my vagina— my p*ssy?— and lifted me up off the floor, literally, and carried me, like something he owned, like a piece of trash, out of the club. His fingers were practically inside of me, his other hand wrapped tightly around my hair.” She ends the caption by saying how she was in pain for the next week, and it was difficult to sleep normally or even wear jeans.
This is not “locker-room talk” as Donald Trump described it as during the most recent presidential debate. This is not what “all guys talk about” behind closed doors as his supporters excuse it as. This was two men laughing and bonding over hurting a woman, there is nothing “normal” about what was exchanged that day. Women take up almost half of the population in the U.S, do we really want to elect a man president who thinks of us as “things” he could just “grab?”
